A TIMELINE OF HULL
By Tim Lambert
c. 1193 About this time monks found a port where wool from their estates can be exported. It was called Wyke on Hull.
1279 Hull is granted the right to hold a market and a fair
c. 1285 The Church of the Holy Trinity is built
1293 The king acquires Hull. It is renamed Kingston on Hull.
c. 1300 A mint is established in Hull
1331 Hull is given a charter (a document granting the people certain rights)
1349 The Black Death devastates the population c. 1365 A weigh house where bales of wool are weighed is built 1536 The Pilgrimage of Grace. The rebels enter Hull. 1537 Plague strikes Hull 1541 Henry VIII improves the town's defences 1575-75 Plague strikes again 1602-04 Plague strikes Hull again 1637 Another outbreak of plague 1642 King Charles I is refused entry to Hull. The royalist lay siege to Hull but fail to capture it. 1643 The Royalists besiege Hull again but again they fail to capture it 1700 The population of Hull is about 7,500 1743 Hull has its first theatre 1744 Maister House is built 1755 Improvement Commissioners are given powers to pave, clean and light the streets of Hull 1759 William Wilberforce is born in Hull 1778 A dock opens in Hull 1782 Hull Royal Infirmary opens 1800 The population of Hull is about 22,000. New houses are being built west of the town. 1809 Humber dock is built 1814 A dispensary where the poor can obtain free medicines opens in Hull 1822 Hull gains gas street light 1829 Junction Dock is built 1832 Cholera strikes Hull 1860 Beverley Park opens 1880 A telephone exchange opens in Hull 1881 Smallpox kills 689 people in Hull 1885 West Park opens 1893 An electricity generating station in Hull 1894 A Central Library opens in Hull 1897 Hull is made a city 1901 The population of Hull is 239,000 1915 A zeppelin raid kills 24 people in Hull 1927 Ferens Art Gallery opens 1935 Queens Gardens are laid out World War II About 5,000 houses are destroyed by German bombing 1954 Hull University is founded 1975 Prospect Shopping Centre opens 1976 Streetlife Museum opens 1981 Humber Bridge opens 1990 Princes Quay Shopping Centre opens 1997 RED Art Gallery opens. Hull and East Riding Museum opens. 1999 The Arctic Corsair opens to the public 2001 The Deep opens in Hull 2007 St Stephens Shopping Centre opens in Hull